Excess Spread Financing, Fair Value Disclosure

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Mortgage Servicing Rights Liability Resulting from Sale or Securitization of Servicer Advances, Rights not Accounted for as a Sale

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- Definition

The amount of impairment loss recognized in the period resulting from the write-down of the carrying amount of a finite-lived intangible asset to fair value.

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-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 230
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This is the sum of principal amount outstanding for both securitized and unsecuritized loans of all types.

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Mortgage Servicing Rights and Related Liabilities - Narrative (Details) - USD ($) $ in Millions	3 Months Ended
	Mar. 31, 2021	Dec. 31, 2020	Mar. 31, 2020
Servicing Asset at Amortized Cost [Line Items]
Excess spread financing - fair value	$ 934	$ 934
Mortgage servicing rights financing - fair value	23	33
Forward MSRs Sold
Servicing Asset at Amortized Cost [Line Items]
UPB	50		$ 40
Forward MSRs Sold, Subservicing Retained
Servicing Asset at Amortized Cost [Line Items]
UPB	0		$ 0
Reverse Mortgage Servicing Rights
Servicing Asset at Amortized Cost [Line Items]
Impairment	0
HECM
Servicing Asset at Amortized Cost [Line Items]
UPB	$ 17,269	$ 18,091